It's a Match!

As most of you already know, we've been matched with an expectant mother (aka EM)! This means that the mother picked us to parent her child and we also agree that we want to work with her. What an amazing feeling it was getting the call that someone I never met has chosen US to hand her child to and love and take care of the rest of his life!

Throughout this whole particular situation, God has made it so incredibly clear that his hand is in this. In order to respect the privacy of the EM, I won't divulge every single detail. All I can say is there are no coincidences, just his master plan!

This adoption lead came to us through networking and was very unexpected. Our friends are close friends with another couple who we met through them. The girl's mother is a legal assistant for an adoption attorney. They told her about me and Steve's hopes to adopt and a couple months later that adoption attorney was approached by another attorney who has a client looking to make an adoption plan. They didn't have any active clients on file already who met the EM's requirements so the legal assistant thought of us and reached out. And wow are we sure glad she did reach out to us! The EM's requirements were that the adoptive parents be Christians who are active in their faith and church, are childless, and married at least 5 years. She also had common interests that Steve and I share. 

The next day, we dropped off our profile book to the legal assistant and it was shown to the EM that following Wednesday. I was so anxious on Wed and into Thursday until we finally got a call - the EM chose us! She looked at the profiles of 6 couples and chose us! I was at work when I got the call and went into an empty office to take the call. Emotions overwhelmed me. I started crying, my heart was racing, and so many thoughts going through my head! Then I got to call Steve and give him the news. We are just both thrilled and are in amazement. We thought we'd end up waiting 2-3 years so this happened sooner than we thought it would! 

Things have been moving quickly since then. Lots of things to get in place and lots of paperwork. We got to speak to the EM on the phone that following Monday night and just met her for the first time in person tonight. Things feel more real with each step! I'll write a separate post with more info :-)

So thankful for all the people involved in helping us to make this connection! You know who you are!